Read-In at Atlantic Highlands church honors black history

Passages spoken at AME church in Atlantic Highlands

6:06 PM,
Feb. 4, 2013

The Rev. Theresa Smith reads her selection.

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Inside the Quinn Chapel AME Church, faces of some of the most powerful black Americans to shape history looked out from across an array of books propped upright on a table. In the meeting room of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, congregants and friends read excerpts of their favorite writings in recognition of Black History Month.

There before more than a dozen participants, Robyn Keys, 48, of Keansburg read aloud Maya Angelou's "Still I rise," a poem of a woman's victory over oppression.

"I like Maya Angelou. I think everybody does," said Keys of her choice of reading. "It (the poem) is ...